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Jan 20
BBC culture
“What is the key to creativity, and how does it help our mental health? Beverley D’Silva speaks to Artist’s Way author Julia Cameron and others about ‘flow’, fear and curiosity.
Creativity, according to Maya Angelou, is a bottomless pit: “The more you use it, the more you have,” said the novelist. “Creativity is intelligence having fun,” is a phrase often attributed to Einstein. While advertising supremo David Ogilvy came at it from a business perspective: “If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative”. We know creativity is alive in all fields of life, from medicine to business and agriculture. But the word – which derives from the Latin creare, to make – is most often associated with the arts and culture, and is believed to have first appeared in the 14th-Century literary work, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.”
Leonardo Da Vinci Painting The Mona Lisa By Cesare Maccari
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210105-why-being-creative-is-good-for-you
Read more by clicking the link above.
Jan 13
Medicine musica: the eighteenth-century rationalization of music and medicine
Daisy Fancourt
London, United Kingdom
Instruments de musique, 1770 Anne Vallayer-Coster Musée du Louvre, Paris
“Legends of music’s healing powers on both the mind and the body are estimated to go as far back as Paleolithic times, when music was believed to be a magic that could drive away the angry spirits that caused illness.
It wasn’t until the beginnings of learned medicine in the Greek-Roman, Arabic, Indian, and Chinese traditions that theories of music’s medicinal qualities began to be recorded. But from here on, they became a popular topic for discussion. In the Greek tradition alone, the Mycenean god Pajawo of 2000 BC used holy song to cure disease, and Apollo combined roles as healer and musician.
And even amongst mere mortals, The Odyssey told of the bleeding of Odysseus’s wounds from a wild boar only being stopped with a musical incantation; and the poet Pratinas in the 6th century BC recorded a plague in Sparta being quelled by the music of the composer Thaletas.”
Read more at the link above!
Jan 06
Painting by Nil Sari depicting the treatment of an insane patient by musical therapy.
Ottoman Music Therapy
“Music has been used as a mean of therapy through the centuries to counter all kinds of disorders by various peoples. Physicians and musicians in the Ottoman civilization were aware of the music therapy in continuation of previous Muslim similar practices. There are numerous manuscripts and pamphlets on the influence of sound on man and the effect of music in healing, both in works on medicine and music. Ideas of Al-Farabi, Al-Razi and Ibn Sina on music were followed by several Ottoman physicians.”
from https://muslimheritage.com/ottoman-music-therapy/
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Jan 05
Photo of Rebecca Baird’s art installation at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Please refer to Artists in Healthcare’s annual report to read about our Art in Hospital Donation program which has recieved $359,000 of donated art given to Manitoba hospitals over the last two years.
Dec 22
Dec 08
Click on the image to see the report:
AIHM Annual General Report for 2019 – 2020
May 06
“Thank you so much for coming here, this has been really seriously helping me.”
“I’m going to stop getting fake nails so I can learn how to play the guitar.”
“I love this, I’m going to keep writing after I’m out of here.”
“Oh, so you can practice expressing yourself, and you’ll get better at it…”
There are amazing mental health benefits from telling and sharing your story … thank you Telus!
May 04
The Personal Care Home of Choice for Winnipeg’s Jewish Community
The Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre is a not-for-profit, government-funded facility that honours Jewish values and traditions while welcoming seniors of all backgrounds.
May 01
Our deepest gratitude to The Gail Asper Family Foundation and The Asper Foundation for their continued support of Artists in Healthcare. While some of our programs are suspended until is it safe to be back inside healthcare, we’re working on virtual music programming and our Art at the Bedside program continues to make art kit projects for patients.
Trying times bring us challenges and growth. Having ongoing support to continue work to bring joy and solace to patients is so important, needed more now than ever. We can’t express our thanks more sincerely .. and look forward working in new ways, to adapt to new realities as we find out what they are.
